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##### Province d'Annaba-Jabel \- White lions province \- This emirate is located in the northern and western rims of the Dark Sea (the eastern coast belonging to the Emirate of Sombrahl). Surrounded on all sides by the Al-Saour-Agif desert, only the region located near the Dark Sea is inhabited. Its inhabitants live in austerity and are representative of the traditional way of life of these countries; we could describe the emirate as the “Land of Deep Sands”. A few villages along the Dark Sea serve as staging points for an overland trade route to the west that is more dangerous although less costly than the port of Sombrahl. This trade route is a risky alternative for trade from the eastern Dark Sea emirates to the (minor) ports of the Khadija Emirate.

In addition to the desert itself, from which violent sandstorms regularly blow, the main danger for the inhabitants of this region are the [Saoures](/wiki/bicolline/organizations/saoures/), the inhabitants of the deep desert, who are not subject to the law of the Sultan. More information about them is available in the section dealing with the [Al-Saour-Agif desert](/wiki/bicolline/regions/cite-des-sables/al-saour-agif-desert/).